This is really good news: It’s been years since Randi was on, and he challenged the evil harpy Sylvia Browne to take his million dollar challenge– which she accepted live, on international TV, and with which has never followed through. It’s been 283 weeks.

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Um, just remember that Larry King has no interest in challenging his ratings… I mean, his psychic star, so even if Randi is allowed to take Altea to pieces, there’s no guarantee that King will follow up with any smackdown, and, more likely, would have Altea and her cold act back the following week, unchallenged…

Sweet! I read this about 15 minutes before the show started (we get Larry King relayed live on CNN International), so thanks.

But, boy, who are these people? I had no clue about what the actual news story was, but this Altea person was definitely a big joke.

Randi, whom I’d never actually seen before, was fab. Hogwash with a capital H! Loved that. Don’t know if we have any ‘psychics’ like that here in Belgium, but they’re certainly not allowed to roam freely on television like that.

Thanks for the heads up, BA! I only got to see the last half of the show, but it was great! I mean Rosemary made herself look so stupid to anyone with an ounce of critical thinking in them. Montel was too chicken to go on the show…
And Larry King, while I respect him for putting Randi on, did say something pretty dumb. He said something like, “Randi, Sylvia did do a pretty good job of describing the suspect though, didn’t she?” And then Larry paused (I thought he was being sarcastic). And Randi went on to descride the obvious – that Sylvia didn’t describe the suspect good at all, and then Rosemary jumped in, it was then clear Larry had been serious and it was a whole mess…
Yes, we’ve got a fight on our hands, a BIG one. I mean, if the psychics aren’t even willing to try and prove themselves for a million dollars, what will they do it for?

That black and white photo of Randi looks like Rasputin. I am glad that Randi’s health is back. Television is filled with too many cosmetic types with their talking heads. Randi looks like a cosmic type with a talking mind.

Larry said ‘ESPN’ instead of ESP a couple of times before he realized he’d goofed. There was also some weird caller towards the end, wasn’t there? I only caught the last few minutes, but it had so much concentrated absurdity that it’s hard to distill!

1. That’s humanity, folks. Sorry.
2. If everyone on this thread watched the show, that effectively doubled Larry King’s ratings for the night.

Randi should do O’Reilly. Yeah, I know the guy is demonized in many people’s minds, and he’s a devout Catholic, but I believe he’s fairly skepical about other paranormal things. And he reaches a few more people than King.

I laughed out loud at that Altea woman, especially the way she was introduced at the beginning of the program. Something like “This psychic says that most psychics are actually frauds, but she’s the real thing”.

I always wanted Larry King to have the big one (heart attack) and get his abrasive pseudoscientific butt off of t.v., but then I saw he has a nice (and surprisingly young) family so I don’t really want to see that anymore. I read the transcript I thought Sylvia was going to be on it, but I guess she has decided to lay low for a while. Probably 3-6 months. Psychics do know one thing that our national attention span is about that long and it’ll die down soon enough. Uri Gellar and Peter Popoff are a bit like immortal hydra heads that come back in pairs after you cut one off.
I love that picture of the amazing Randi. I’d love to see him in a movie!
Another thing Randi is a much more competent as a trickster than Sylvia Browne, that’s why he can tell you he is playing a trick. You’re still fooled: If Sylvia Browne told everyone that her career would be over!

I never watch Larry King, but on your advice I did watch the Randi clip. He was magnificent. You can see how much he has to work to control himself on TV in the face of such absolute nonsense and it does me good to see such passion about this cause. Thanks for the heads up.